“In addition, I also want to thank that giant, who has accompanied me throughout this entire process. That giant who usually stays in the dark, who His name is Santiago Caputo and he is the real architect along with the boss“, said Javier Milei when he began to thank those who accompanied him in this electoral process.
Santiago Caputo met Javier Milei through his friend Ramiro Marra with whom he attended secondary school at the Manuel Belgrano School, in the City of Buenos Aires. He has a surname known to politics because he is a distant relative of Nicolás and Toto Caputo. He is the son of Claudio, a notary by profession who became president of the College of Notaries and who died last July.
By then he had already established an excellent relationship with Milei, with whom he spoke almost all day and participated in the most important meetings. Milei’s affection is such that the day her father died, she suspended all activities and went to her house to accompany them. Caputo’s life was a revolution. He had lost his father, was working on a presidential campaign, and his partner was pregnant with their second child. In fact, little Conrado came into the world a few days before the first round of elections, last October.
Life
At 14 years, Caputo dropped out of Manuel Belgrano school to continue his studies at Esquiú, located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano. At 16, due to behavioral problems and academic performance, he was forced to change schools again, but he maintained his friendship with his former classmates at Manuel Belgrano, who years later would take him to Milei. In addition to Marra, there is also Eugenio Casielles, a Buenos Aires legislator who was absent from the celebrations due to his bad relationship with Karina Milei.
During his university years, Caputo studied three years of Computer Engineering at the National Defense University, attracted by the possibility of joining the AFI and developing technology for intelligence. However, after meeting a spy who revealed to him the daily reality of his work, he understood that he was not as romantic as he imagined. He decided to change his course and study Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires.
Through personal connections, he came to know Jaime Durán Barba and began to collaborate in the Ecuadorian teams. There he met Santiago Nieto and Roberto Zapata, prominent partners of the former PRO guru, specialized in public opinion. The intensity and passion of the work led him to abandon his degree just four subjects after graduating, to dedicate himself completely to political consulting. In recent years, he has advised candidates and companies in several countries, including Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and El Salvador.
Caputo likes motorcycles and tattoos. His body is decorated with Russian tattoos, taken from the book “Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia” that a friend gave him. This book, divided into three volumes in red, blue and violet, is based on photographs of Russian mafia prisoners, along with explanations of each tattoo. On his right arm, he has an anti-communist proclamation tattooed in Russian.
Family
Given her fetish for tattoos, Milei’s main advisor The Caputo family crest was tattooed in his body. He maintains a limited relationship with his uncles Nicolás and “Toto”. Santiago openly criticizes the Cambiemos government, maintaining in his conversations with Milei that he did not fulfill the promise of change that they brought to power.
Caputo was summoned to the meeting where the Acassuso Pact was signed in Macri’s house. Karina Milei sent him a WhatsApp and told him to go to a house located on José C. Paz Street in Acassuso around 10:30 p.m. It was Macri’s house. They barely knew each other. Macri didn’t remember his face, but from there he already knew who it was.
That’s how key Caputo is and his friend Milei remembered him on the night of the victory in the first words of his speech, whom he thanked along with his sister Karina. This is key to understanding what Milei will do starting December 10. In private, Caputo urges him to take decisive measures in the first three monthssince then it could be too late.
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